Red Rain
The year is 2075. Earth is ruled by a one-world government. In order to maintain unity, all citizens must deny their national, racial, and religious identities—or suffer the consequences.
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Stripped of her rights for refusing to assimilate, sixteen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna escapes Earth’s religious containment camps when her father is summoned to work on Mars. The remote research base seems like a haven of tolerance—until she discovers it’s the same base where her brother mysteriously died two years before. Searching for answers, she stumbles into a hidden lab and uncovers terrifying experiments for an apocalyptic weapon. The scientist in charge has cruel plans for Earth, and he will kill to keep his secret hidden. Racing to stay one step ahead, Philadelphia must decide whether to save the people who have oppressed her for her entire life—or save her family and let Earth burn.
Fresh out of college, talented Ephesus Symrna is summoned to Mars by a prestigious governor to work on a special project. Only one problem: He must leave his father and sister behind in a religious containment camp on Earth. When the governor promises their release in exchange for completing the assignment, Ephesus jumps at the opportunity. But when the project becomes progressively more sinister—and his enigmatic boss refuses to answer questions—Ephesus begins to wonder if the offer is too good to be true.
Believing the chaos of her adventure on Mars is behind her, seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna, an unassimilated Christian, faces a restricted but uneventful future. That is until she and her friend Cea are taken hostage to blackmail Cea’s wickedly genius brother into completing the infamous superweapon Red Rain. If he succeeds, the government will have the power to dissolve entire cities with acid. Desperate, the girls make a break for it. Thrust into the streets with a gun she’s afraid to shoot, Philadelphia realizes her battle with Red Rain is far from over—and this time, turning it over to the authorities is not an option.
After his empire on Mars collapses, Nic is convinced he’ll be left on the remote prison island of Rott to do exactly that. When the government offers him a pardon in exchange for his apocalyptic superweapon Red Rain, Nic seizes the opportunity, hoping to trick the officials and escape. But when the government threatens the one person he holds dear, Nic must decide whether to dance with the devil—or make a deal with his own worst enemy, Philadelphia Smyrna.
After destroying the government’s superweapon, seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna leaps off a train in a desperate attempt to escape from prison. She survives, only to be kidnapped and held hostage by a politician from her past. He offers to set her free in exchange for a favor, but his terms seem too good to be true. Philadelphia soon realizes that her patronizing captor also has a deadly secret that puts them all at risk. With her former enemy Nic as her only ally, Philadelphia races to find out who’s really in charge—before her captor uses her to start a war.
Eighteen-year-old Stanyard Dass had every intention of leaving his past behind when he fled a religious containment camp. But his assimilation into society is threatened when his old neighbor Philadelphia, on the run from the law, begs for his help. She carries the key to a chemical superweapon, and the government will kill to get her back. Stanyard agrees to take her to safety—but when everything goes horribly wrong, he must decide which one of them will make it out alive.
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Red Rain
Project 74
Crook Q
Prisoner 120518
Andromeda
Aurelius
After a video of her act of insurrection goes viral, seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna and her family become the government’s most wanted. When she intercepts a radio transmission from her father asking for help, she knows she must find him before the government does. Adopting a fake identity, Philadelphia leaves the safety of Mars and returns to Earth. But the government isn’t the only one looking for her. When her former allies in the underground compromise her position, she realizes she’s become a pawn in a war—and both sides will sacrifice everything, including her family, to find her.
Dr. Thomas Smyrna has never been afraid of the law. A stubborn Christian, he’s been racking up felonies since high school and organizing a black market for illegal Bibles. But when the government busts his operation—and his father-in-law takes the fall—Smyrna knows he must lay low and protect what family he has left. That is until the government rounds up all the “unassimilated” and forces them into concentration camps. Desperate to free his wife and children, Smyrna agrees to one last mission—one designed to end the government’s cruelty forever.
After her rash decision leaves her father cryogenically frozen, seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna races to hack the machine and thaw him before the damage is permanent. Stranded on Earth and wanted by the government, she calls on her father’s old contacts and uncovers the truth she was never meant to find: Dr. Smyrna was an insurrectionist. He was the mastermind behind a plot to end the government's religious intolerance, before a tragic mistake killed his wife. Now the rebellion plans to finish the job and liberate the “unassimilated” once and for all. And they want Philadelphia to take her father's place.
Nic has always been too smart for his own good. The son of the scientist responsible for putting humans on Mars, Nic plans to follow in his father’s footsteps. But when his father is cruelly punished for being “unassimilated,” Nic vows to create an apocalyptic weapon and free the world from United control. Seeking allies, Nic charms his way into the upper ranks, where he meets Min, a high-ranking official with revolutionary plans of her own. Min offers Nic unlimited funding and legal protection. But in exchange, she wants the one thing he can’t give: his heart.
Philadelphia Smyrna lives two lives. To the government, she’s Andromeda, the adopted daughter of an influential family. To the “unassimilated,” she’s Blue Fire, the figurehead of a revolution. Under her leadership, the movement is gaining steam—until the government retaliates by ordering the mass relocation of the unassimilated to Chinese work camps. Philadelphia realizes she must call for war before all her friends are lost. Her opportunity comes when she’s invited to the government’s biggest gala of the year, giving the revolution the chance to take down the United from the top. But to succeed, Philadelphia must do the one thing she promised she’d never do: kill.
After reuniting with Cea on Mars, Ephesus realizes he finally has the freedom to pursue the woman he loves. He wastes no time in proposing, but Cea has reservations. But before she can give him an answer, mysterious malfunctions begin happening on base, and all the evidence points to sabotage. As the attacks get worse, Ephesus and Cea race to find the vandal before someone gets hurt. Will they be able to find the truth and save the station, or will Wing 74 drive them apart once again?
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Fox Hunt
Catalyst
Blue Fire
First Light
Operation Thunderbird
Laodicea
Stranded on Earth and haunted by a powerful nemesis, Dr. Nic and his ward Philadelphia Smyrna flee onto the streets of Beijing. With the government calling for their executions, they have no way to buy food, let alone a ticket off the planet. Nic searches for a way to get them off the grid, but he soon discovers that other forces are hunting for Philadelphia. Their former allies in the underground have split into dangerous factions after a failed mission. Both sides see Philadelphia as the key to victory in the brewing war, and both want her back. But Nic will do anything—including sacrifice the revolution—to keep them from finding her.
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